>On 11/02/14 00:51, Theo de Raadt wrote: >>> On 2 November 2014 06:15, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >>>> A "serial console" is a serial port on a machine exposing it's boottime >>>> console. OpenBSD cannnot use select a USB serial connector as a console >>>> tty, no more than it can select some random serial pci card. The logic >>>> for finding the device happens too late. >>>> >>>> If this is the other way around, then the laptop is just doing serial. >>>> What's console about it. It is just talking serial, to something else >>>> which is console. You don't need the word console, nor do we need >>>> to know the colour of the cable you choose. >>>> >>>> Naddy is precise. You used the wrong words. >>> Ah, okay. Thank you. But even if the laptop end of the setup wouldn't >>> properly be called a serial console, do I understand correctly then >>> that it would work to use it with a run-of-the-mill USB-to-serial >>> adapter in the way I describe? Meaning, use it as a terminal (or >>> terminal emulator, or technically, laptop, running OpenBSD, running a >>> terminal emulat-- arrgh!). Anyway, do I understand correctly that it >>> would work the way I expect, and that (my imprecise terminology >>> notwithstanding) Patrick's reply is applicable? >>> >>> And further, just to make sure I'm really getting this, is it actually >>> correct then to call the (bog standard) physical RS-232 port on the >>> headless computer the serial console? Or am I still on the wrong >>> track, and does a real, genuine, proper serial console involve custom >>> hardware beyond a standard physical serial port? >> That is a lot of words. I do not understand your questions. >> >> Can a device which does serial console expose it's console over serial >> to another device which does serial? >> >> Yes. >> >> Because serial ports can talk to each other. >> >> Whatever you want, just try it. Unbelievable.. >> > > >Sounds like the question, in a very around about way, is can you use a >laptop or desktop with a USB to serial converter with a given terminal >program to communicate with an OpenBSD machine that uses a serial console. > >The answer is yes and I fail to see why this is such a problem.
It is a problem because he doesn't have the hardware in the first place! So I have a question. I don't wood work, and I don't have any wood, and I don't have any wood working tools, but if I was to, er, what is the word -- is it "lathe"? That spinny thing? What happens if my power cable gets unplugged while I am doing that. Do I just plug it in? Thanks. I was curious. So excited to hear the answers.
